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A-bomb exhibition begins in Osaka

Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura (2nd from R) and Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (far R) attend a tape-cutting ceremony on the first day of an exhibition on the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the Osaka International Peace Center in the western Japan city on Aug. 22, 2025. Twenty-six items provided by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bomb museums are on display at the event, which is being held until Dec. 27 to mark the 80th anniversary of the tragedy.

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A-bomb exhibition begins in Osaka

Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura (front, R) visits an exhibition on the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on its first day at the Osaka International Peace Center in the western Japan city on Aug. 22, 2025. Twenty-six items provided by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bomb museums are on display at the event, which is being held until Dec. 27 to mark the 80th anniversary of the tragedy.

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A-bomb exhibition at Battleship Missouri Memorial

Sadae Kasaoka, 92, an atomic bomb survivor, talks about her experience in Hiroshima during an interview to the media on the first day of a special exhibition on the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Aug. 12, 2025. The exhibition, displaying items from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb museums, will run until Feb. 28, 2026.

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A-bomb exhibition at Battleship Missouri Memorial

A visitor looks at items related to the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the first day of a special exhibition at the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Aug. 12, 2025. The exhibition, displaying items from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb museums, will run until Feb. 28, 2026.

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A-bomb exhibition at Battleship Missouri Memorial

Sadae Kasaoka, 92, an atomic bomb survivor, talks about her experience in Hiroshima on the first day of a special exhibition on the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Aug. 12, 2025. The exhibition, displaying items from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb museums, will run until Feb. 28, 2026.

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Pope Francis in Japan

Pope Francis delivers a speech calling for a world without nuclear weapons at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Nov. 24, 2019, with the Atomic Bomb Dome in the background. The first pontiff from Latin America and the first Jesuit pope died on April 21, 2025, at the age of 88.

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World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Dec. 18 Kyodo - Photo shows the first World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1955, the 10th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city. The conference gained momentum after Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 was irradiated by fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

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World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 18 Kyodo - Photo shows the first World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 1955, the 10th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. The conference gained momentum after Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 was irradiated by fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

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Wrecked Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall (now the A-bomb Dome) and Aioi Bridge

The wrecked Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall (right) and Aioi Bridge (left), which was the target of the atomic bomb. The wreckage of Japanese Red Cross Society Hiroshima Branch's building can be seen between the Industrial Promotion Hall and the bridge. The ruined Industrial Promotion Hall became known as the “A-bomb Dome" after the war. Yoshito Matsushige, who took this photograph, recalled, "I think it was the first. (Distance from hypocenter 150meters) Photo taken in September 1945, by Yoshito Matsushige, Chugoku Shimbun. **Editorial use only, Commercial use not possible**, Credit: Chugoku Shimbun/Kyodo News Images

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Candlelight memorial event in Hiroshima

People march with candles at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on the night of July 31, 2023, at an event to mourn atomic bomb victims ahead of the 78th anniversary on Aug. 6 of the world's first atomic bombing by the United States on the western Japan city during World War II.

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Candlelight memorial event in Hiroshima

People march with candles at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on the night of July 31, 2023, at an event to mourn atomic bomb victims ahead of the 78th anniversary on Aug. 6 of the world's first atomic bombing by the United States on the western Japan city during World War II.

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G-7 summit in Hiroshima

Group of Seven leaders head to the site of a tree-planting ceremony after offering flowers at the cenotaph for atomic bomb victims during their visit to the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on May 19, 2023, on the first day of a three-day G-7 summit in the western Japanese city. (Pool photo)

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G-7 summit in Hiroshima

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (L) and U.S. President Joe Biden are pictured after offering wreaths at the cenotaph for atomic bomb victims at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on May 19, 2023, the first day of the three-day summit in the western Japan city. (Pool photo)

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G-7 summit in Hiroshima

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C), U.S. President Joe Biden (R) and French President Emmanuel Macron are pictured after offering wreathes at the cenotaph for atomic bomb victims at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on May 19, 2023, the first day of the three-day Group of Seven summit in the western Japan city. (Pool photo)

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G-7 summit in Hiroshima

Photo taken from a helicopter shows the Group of Seven leaders (top) walking to the cenotaph for atomic bomb victims at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima to offer wreathes on May 19, 2023, the first day of their three-day summit in the western Japan city. (Pool photo)

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G-7 summit in Hiroshima

The Group of Seven leaders take part in a photo session after offering wreathes at the cenotaph for atomic bomb victims at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on May 19, 2023, the first day of their three-day summit in the western Japan city. Pictured from left are European Council President Charles Michel, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, U.S. President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. (Pool photo)

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Daughter of U.S. commander Delnore in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (R) and Patricia Magee, daughter of U.S. Lt. Col. Victor Delnore who came to Nagasaki following the end of the Pacific War, stand by a reproduced street sign honoring her father on Aug. 8, 2014, the day before the Japanese city holds its annual atomic bomb memorial service. Delnore was highly regarded by citizens in Nagasaki for allowing the first peace memorial ceremony to be conducted in the city in 1948.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (C) shakes hands with a tourist at the Peace Park in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Dec. 10, 2013. The ambassador was making her first trip to the southwestern Japanese city, hit by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945, since taking up her post in the previous month.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (2nd from R) is surrounded by tourists at the Peace Park in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Dec. 10, 2013. The ambassador was making her first trip to the southwestern Japanese city, hit by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945, since taking up her post in the previous month.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy offers flowers at a statue at the Peace Park in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Dec. 10, 2013. The ambassador was making her first trip to the southwestern Japanese city, hit by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945, since taking up her post in the previous month.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (4th from R) poses for photos with three victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, including Hideo Tsuchiyama (3rd from R), 88, a former president of Nagasaki University, at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture on Dec. 10, 2013. The ambassador was making her first trip to the southwestern Japanese city since taking up her post in the previous month.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy speaks at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture on Dec. 10, 2013. The ambassador was making her first trip to the southwestern Japanese city, hit by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945, since taking up her post in the previous month.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy speaks at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture on Dec. 10, 2013. The ambassador was making her first trip to the southwestern Japanese city, hit by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945, since taking up her post in the previous month.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (2nd from R) walks with Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (2nd from L) at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture on Dec. 10, 2013. The ambassador was making her first trip to the southwestern Japanese city, hit by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945, since taking up her post in the previous month.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (R) is welcomed by Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (L) at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture on Dec. 10, 2013. The ambassador was making her first trip to the southwestern Japanese city, hit by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945, since taking up her post in the previous month.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (R) is welcomed by Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (C) at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture on Dec. 10, 2013. The ambassador was making her first trip to the southwestern Japanese city, hit by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945, since taking up her post in the previous month.

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EU foreign policy chief visits Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Catherine Ashton, the European Union's high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, offers flowers at a cenotaph for atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima on Oct. 31, 2013. Ashton became the first top EU foreign policy official to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

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EU foreign policy chief visits Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Catherine Ashton, the European Union's high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, offers flowers at a cenotaph for atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima on Oct. 31, 2013. Ashton became the first top EU foreign policy official to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

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Memoirs of Hiroshima survivors still draw readers

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken June 21, 2013 shows Hiroshi Maruya in Hiroshima holding a first edition of "Genbaku shishu" (Collection of Atomic Bomb Poems) by Sankichi Toge (1917-1953). Maruya, who was associated with the poet, has taken great care to preserve his copy.

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Memoirs of Hiroshima survivors still draw readers

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken June 21, 2013, shows a first edition of "Genbaku shishu" (Collection of Atomic Bomb Poems) by Sankichi Toge (1917-1953). Only 500 copies of the mimeographed first edition were printed.

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Truman's grandson in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Clifton Truman Daniel, a grandson of former U.S. President Harry Truman who ordered the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, holds a press conference at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum on Aug. 7, 2012. Daniel is visiting Japan for the first time to take part in the annual peace ceremonies in the two cities.

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Truman's grandson in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Clifton Truman Daniel (far R), a grandson of former U.S. President Harry Truman who ordered the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, listens to the tragic experience of a survivor (front) of the bombing of Nagasaki at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum on Aug. 7, 2012. Daniel is visiting Japan for the first time to take part in the annual peace ceremonies in the two cities.

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Nagasaki 65th A-bomb anniversary

NAGASAKI, Japan - International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano, the first Asian head of the Vienna-based nuclear watchdog, offers a wreath during a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki at the southwestern Japan city's Peace Park on Aug. 9, 2010.

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U.N. chief Ban arrives in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon waves as he arrives at JR Hiroshima Station on Aug. 5, 2010, to attend a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bomb attack the following day as the first chief of the international body to do so. Ban came to the western Japan city after visiting Nagasaki, the other city that suffered an atomic-bomb attack.

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U.N. chief in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon enters the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 5, 2010. Ban visited the atom-bombed city for the first time.

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U.N. chief in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (C) shakes hands with Sumiteru Taniguchi, 81, head of the Nagasaki A-bomb Sufferers' Council at Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 5, 2010. The photo at upper right shows the burns Taniguchi received on his back in the 1945 U.S. nuclear attack. Ban visited the atom-bombed city for the first time.

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U.N. chief in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (3rd from L in front) looks at exhibits at Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 5, 2010. Ban visited the atom-bombed city for the first time as a U.N. chief.

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U.N. chief in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (L) talks with survivors of the 1945 U.S. nuclear attack in a meeting at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 5, 2010. Ban visited the atom-bombed city for the first time.

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U.N. chief in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (C) shakes hands with Sumiteru Taniguchi, 81, head of the Nagasaki A-bomb Sufferers' Council at Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 5, 2010. The photo at upper right shows the burns Taniguchi received on his back in the 1945 U.S. nuclear attack. Ban visited the atom-bombed city for the first time.

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Che Guevara's daughter offers flowers at A-bomb monument

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Aleida Guevara, the eldest daughter of the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, offers flowers at a monument for atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima during her first visit to the city on May 15. During his visit to Hiroshima in 1959, Che Guevara witnessed the tragedy of Hiroshima as the world's first city subjected to nuclear warfare.

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Film recreating Hiroshima A-bomb victims' lives shown at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Masaaki Tanabe answers questions at a press conference after his film, which uses 3-D computer graphics to recreate the lives and neighborhood of Saikumachi district in Hiroshima before the first atomic bomb in history exploded directly above it, was shown at the United Nations on April 11.

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3 Chinese A-bomb victims registered at Hiroshima memorial

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Lu Xuewen (photo), who died in 2003 at age 82, is among three Chinese men registered at the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims in Hiroshima on May 31. The three, who were forcefully brought to the city to provide labor, are the first Chinese nationals to be registered at the hall.

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3 Chinese A-bomb victims registered at Hiroshima memorial

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Xu Lichuan (photo), who died in 1992 at age 70, is among three Chinese men registered at the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims in Hiroshima on May 31. The three, who were forcefully brought to the city to provide labor, are the first Chinese nationals to be registered at the hall.

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(2)Lower house passes supplementary war contingency bills

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Members of the Japan Council against A & H Bombs of Hiroshima stage a sit-in in front of the atomic-bomb museum in Hiroshima, opposing bills to supplement Japan's first war contingency legislation. The House of Representatives the same day passed the bills, including ones closely related to the operation of U.S. forces in Japan in the event of an attack on the country.

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Hall for Hiroshima A-bomb victims shows 1st photo of U.S. POW

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A photo of Cpl. John Long Jr., an American prisoner of war who died in the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, was registered at the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall of Atomic Bomb Victims on Jan. 4 by his 34-year-old relative Nathan Long who lives in Tokyo. The photo is the first to be displayed of American POWs who were taken to Hiroshima and died there after the United Stated dropped the bomb on the city.

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Gov't set to decide not to appeal A-bomb survivor case

TOKYO, Japan - Kwak Kwi Hoon, a Korean survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Dec. 17 about the Japanese government's decision not to appeal a Dec. 5 high court ruling ordering it to pay medical allowances to Kwak, who now lives in South Korea. It was the first ruling by a high court recognizing that someone holding an A-bomb survivor's health card who lives abroad is eligible to receive the allowances on the same terms as those living in Japan.

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(1)Court rejects state appeal of overseas A-bomb survivor ruling

OSAKA, Japan - Kwak Kwi Hoon, 78, a Korean survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, walks into the Osaka High Court on Dec. 5. The court rejected the state's appeal and upheld an earlier lower court ruling ordering the central and Osaka prefectural governments to pay a medical allowance to an atomic bomb survivor living abroad. It is the first high court ruling to recognize that atomic-bomb survivors or ''hibakusha'' living abroad are eligible to receive the allowance based on the Atomic Bomb Victims Relief Law on the same terms as those living in Japan.

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Toshiko Akiyoshi to play requiem for Hiroshima A-bomb victims

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese jazz pianist and composer Toshiko Akiyoshi speaks at a press conference in New York on July 2 about her newest composition, ''Hiroshima, Rising From the Abyss.'' She said she plans to perform the requiem in a world debut in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, the 56th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack.

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Supreme Court determines woman to be A-bomb victim

NAGASAKI, Japan - Hideko Matsuya (R), accompanied by her lawyer, speaks at a news conference July 18 after the Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that ordered the state to officially recognize her as a victim of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, making her eligible for a special medical allowance. The decision was the first by the Supreme Court over the certification of A-bomb victims.

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Hiroshima mayor delivers peace declaration

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba delivers his peace declaration praising contributions made by A-bomb survivors and urging young people to learn from their achievements, as the city commemorated the 54th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing Aug. 6.